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Masuaku set for attacking midfield in Gameweek 22 opener

David Moyes has re-opened the door to an avenue once thought firmly closed.

Fantasy Premier League defender Arthur Masuaku (£4.2m) looks set for a return to the attacking midfield role he played during Moyes’ first spell as the West Ham manager.

He has been named in the same side as Aaron Cresswell (£4.7m) while attacking midfielders Robert Snodgrass (£5.2m) and Pablo Fornals (£6.0m) are both on the bench.

With the Hammers preparing for two fixtures in Double Gameweek 24, all eyes will be on Masuaku tonight.

Meanwhile, there is just one change to the Sheffield United side that lost at Liverpool.

Lys Mousset (£4.8m) drops to the bench so that Oli McBurnie (£5.7m) can star alongside David McGoldrick (£5.4m) up-front.

That means key Fantasy assets such as John Lundstram (£5.1m) and Dean Henderson (£4.9m) keep their places in the starting line-up.

Sheffield United XI: D Henderson; O’Connell, Egan, Basham; Stevens, Fleck, Norwood, Lundstram, Baldock; McBurnie, McGoldrick.

West Ham United XI: Fabianski; Cresswell, Balbuena, Ogbonna, Zabaleta; Noble, Rice; Masuaku, Lanzini, Anderson; Haller.

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  1. Digital-Real
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    VAR singlehandedly ruining the game 😉

    1. Epic Fail
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      This one really isn't anything to do with VAR. It was just VAR confirming it was handball, which it was.

      You can argue that the handball rule is stupid though, but that's not down to VAR.

      1. Digital-Real
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        If VAR didn't exist that goal counts. An accidental handball.

        1. Epic Fail
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          Not if the handball was seen by the ref.

          1. Riverside Red
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 4 Years
            4 years, 2 months ago

            An epic fail in your logic

      2. Brosstan
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        The rule is made with VAR in mind... Its not even enforceable without VAR

  2. Riverside Red
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Football being reduced to a farce

    1. svasei - Up (?) the Rovers
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      Dude, handball.

    2. Bonus magnet
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      I hope a petition can be started and football fans not go to stadia till this VAR thing is removed or used for contentious decisions only not just making the refs do nothing and knowing they can check later
      Annoying now

      1. Dthinger
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        In this case, VAR isnt the problem; its that BS handling rule update

    3. Baps hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      Handballs should be allowed. Maradona scored!!!

      1. Riverside Red
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        I've got a Sheffield Utd defender ... if you think that the handball rule is Ok then you must also want every shirt tug in the box to be a penalty...we'd end up with 23- 23 scorelines

  3. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    whats happening?

    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      Heather' Son woke up.

    2. Piggs Boson
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      Some dude used his hand in a game of football.

  4. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    That was never handball if it was LiVARpool

    1. goriuanx
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      See Mane vs United

  5. svasei - Up (?) the Rovers
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Fleck 1st sub. KdB Mr. Glass right?

    1. Gudjohnsen
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      No

  6. Says
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    i LOVE how VAR is highlighting how poor the rules are.

    1. BobbyDoesNotLook
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      This!

  7. FOO FIGHTER
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    VAR ruled correctly but the rules for handball surely should change. If it is unintentional then the goal should stand.

    1. goriuanx
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      You can't define intention that's why the rule is lime that

      1. Brosstan
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        Why doesnt the same rule apply to defenders?

        1. Says
          • 13 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          because we need to ensure there are as few goals as possible

    2. svasei - Up (?) the Rovers
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      Only North Korea and Saudi Arabia can rule on people's intentions.

    3. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      I disagree. I think it should be the other way. Rule out all handballs. If you bring in 'intention' it is subjective.

      1. Dthinger
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        and lets do a way with the advantage rule while we're at it

    4. lilmessipran
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      That led to so much ambiguity that's why they changed it in the first place

  8. Lukakuna
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    After hating VAR for half a year I have to reconsider tonight!

    1. OldBenKenobi
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      Lol

  9. OldBenKenobi
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Didn’t see it but was there a handball or what?

    1. The Train Driver
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      It was

    2. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      I haven't seen it either but it was blatantly the wrong decision.

    3. Monkey Hanger
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      Yes, early in build up.

      1. Dthinger
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        well, not that early, but it wouldn't have been a handball anywhere else

    4. HamezMace
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      Are you Michael Oliver?

  10. The Train Driver
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Gotta love this Sheffield team, pure heart, great teamplay, no divas, no slacking.

  11. Do I Not Like Orange
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    About time VAR won me some points for a change

  12. Brosstan
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Still havent had a single VAR decision go my way all season. Another one today for all Baldock and Henderson owners. Hate this crap. Just remove shitty VAR

    1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      It’s ok lots of other people are evening it out for you 🙂

    2. Baps hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      Keep on giving us a good smile, thanks man 🙂

  13. Party time
      4 years, 2 months ago

      I Love Var 🙂

      1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        Three cheers for VAR!

        1. Party time
            4 years, 2 months ago

            Hell Yeah!!!

          • Baps hunter
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 6 Years
            4 years, 2 months ago

            Yes Sir 🙂

            1. Riverside Red
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 4 Years
              4 years, 2 months ago

              You obviously are not concerned that its ruining our national game

      2. BrockLanders
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        Henderson, Lundstrum dirty 12 point double.. YAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSS

        1. RamaJama
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 11 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          No bonus points?

      3. Smurf
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        This match summed up my season.

        I don’t own Lundstram. I don’t own Henderson.

        I do own Fabianski. I do own Snodgrass.

        1. SB007
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          Sorry to hear that. Just unlucky.

        2. Dr Dream
          • 11 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          Never mind all that...what do you think of VAR?

          1. Smurf
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 14 Years
            4 years, 2 months ago

            It’s pathetic. I thought it was bad news before the season started and it’s been even more horrific than I expected.

        3. lilmessipran
          • 11 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          Casual 😉

      4. Fpl Richie
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        Just got in from beer fuelled evening in Belgium. As a WH fan, how should I be feeling about this game?

        1. Rainer
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          Hope the beer was nice.

          1. Fpl Richie
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 8 Years
            4 years, 2 months ago

            It was a delight. De Muze in Antwerp on a Friday night - packed out, jazz band and properly made regional beer. Ace.

        2. The Train Driver
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          Suicidal

        3. George Sillett
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          Depressed . Moyes is still clueless.

      5. SB007
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        Kelly Cates with lovely windswept hair.

        1. Fred54
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          Is she preggers? Coat seems to get bigger and bigger.

          1. Fpl Richie
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 8 Years
            4 years, 2 months ago

            Shut up Heather might be the father

        2. UTD - HATED, ADORED, BUT NE…
          • 4 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          And GNev

        3. Monkey Hanger
          • 10 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          Remind me of King Kenny.

      6. Now I'm Panicking
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        Sheff Utd defender loaders getting their only points of January

      7. Rainer
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        Red arrow when your 4m defender keeps a CS...

        FPL is bonkers!

        1. Whats the Huth
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          Lots of double Sheffield defenders

        2. OverTinker
          • 5 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          Because others have two

        3. Forza
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          The average is on 5.70689655 per player, so it's essentially a green arrow.

          1. Forza
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 9 Years
            4 years, 2 months ago

            (Top 10k average)

      8. Jordan.
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        feck VAR done for me ,deffo last season ,theres£12.50 down the bog FFS

      9. Tomerick
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        I used to feel so much joy when I saw a notification for a goal and now it just fills me with dread for the inevitable VAR decision.

        1. diesel001
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          Make sure you score a legal goal then.

          Players were getting away with handballs and offsides before. Not any more.

          1. Dthinger
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 7 Years
            4 years, 2 months ago

            some of the goals they're disallowing are crap. This one today, for instance--it would not have been a handball if it hadn't led to a goal. And the offsides goals they are calling are still subjective because some human has to decide where the line is, and the resolution they are using isn't precise enough to make the tight calls they are making.

          2. Squeazy
            • 8 Years
            4 years, 2 months ago

            He still has to wait in dread

            1. Tomerick
              • 9 Years
              4 years, 2 months ago

              Exactly. It’s just anti-fun. If it was clear and obvious we wouldn’t need to spend 30 minutes combing over the footage.

        2. Party time
            4 years, 2 months ago

            Lol

        3. Wild Rover
          • 13 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          What a shite motm trophy

          1. Colonel Shoe 肝池
            • 12 Years
            4 years, 2 months ago

            😆

        4. have you seen cyan
          • 4 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          I benched Henderson for Foster. I knew he had a home game, why did I bench him 🙁
          Can Foster outscore?

          1. Epic Fail
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 13 Years
            4 years, 2 months ago

            No.

            1. have you seen cyan
              • 4 Years
              4 years, 2 months ago

              but its Bournemouth, they dont do goals

              1. The Ejiptian King
                • 5 Years
                4 years, 2 months ago

                Usually plenty of goals in that fixture.

                1. have you seen cyan
                  • 4 Years
                  4 years, 2 months ago

                  oh no, im getting slack. But Foster is on fire, I have faith

                  I guess the manager bounce at West Ham lasted one game

        5. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
          • 14 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          That was a beautiful moment as a Sheffield Utd double defence owner

          Right up there with Vardy (c) missing the pen v Brighton then VAR ordering the retake

        6. AzzaroMax99
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          Lundy owners & VAR...
          They have the hardest time 😀

          1. Rainer
            • 7 Years
            4 years, 2 months ago

            Professionals punished.

        7. OverTinker
          • 5 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          Hendo + Lundy

        8. Dr Dream
          • 11 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          We’ll all tell our grandchildren about the time we tried VAR for a season...

          1. goriuanx
            • 13 Years
            4 years, 2 months ago

            It's annoying for sure but correct decisions are being made

            1. Rainer
              • 7 Years
              4 years, 2 months ago

              2 reasons to disallowed the goal, missed by the ref.

              How people can argue it as VARs fault is comical.

            2. Brosstan
              • 9 Years
              4 years, 2 months ago

              Easy to say as a LiVARpool supporter..

          2. Rainer
            • 7 Years
            4 years, 2 months ago

            You realise how well it works in other European leagues, right?

            1. Dr Dream
              • 11 Years
              4 years, 2 months ago

              Tbf Europe don’t have FPL...

          3. diesel001
            • 7 Years
            4 years, 2 months ago

            I would rather have correct decisions than incorrect ones.

          4. Squeazy
            • 8 Years
            4 years, 2 months ago

            I hope so.

          5. Fred54
            • 9 Years
            4 years, 2 months ago

            'At the end of the season the never used pitch side monitors were set alight.'

        9. Party time
            4 years, 2 months ago

            Those Cleansheet points tastes like Spaghetti Pasta in creamie Tomato sauce & crushed crunchy Nuggets

            1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
              • 14 Years
              4 years, 2 months ago

              Or like juicy tender meatballs in a lovely marinara sauce with some oregano and fresh tagliatelle smothered in grated mozzarella

              1. The Ejiptian King
                • 5 Years
                4 years, 2 months ago

                You don't grate mozzarella you heathen.

                1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
                  • 14 Years
                  4 years, 2 months ago

                  You bloody do n all - well the shop does. Then they sell it in bags.

                  100 less calories per 100g compared to cheddar means more cheesy goodness for your calorie envelope too

                  Mmmmmmm Mozarella

                  1. The Ejiptian King
                    • 5 Years
                    4 years, 2 months ago

                    Get a decent mozzarella and tear it! I do agree that it's delicious though.

                    1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
                      • 14 Years
                      4 years, 2 months ago

                      I’m a big fan of both the mozzarella balls and the bags of grated. Of all cheeses in fact.

                      And VAR

                      I love VAR

            2. Rash
              • 6 Years
              4 years, 2 months ago

              Lamb and tuna fish

          • Sun Jihai
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 12 Years
            4 years, 2 months ago

            The guy in my ML on 18 points - pure jam!

          • Tsparkes10
            • 5 Years
            4 years, 2 months ago

            But but but. We're tired and the bubble burst..

            1. George Sillett
              • 8 Years
              4 years, 2 months ago

              Won't be long . Blades will not play sides as bad as that very often.